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CJ leave for cancer treatment: Anisul

Law Minister Anisul Huq and Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday refuted any allegation of government pressure on Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha to go for one month leave, saying that the CJ went on the leave for treatment as he was suffering from cancer and other ailments. The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) made the allegation of government pressure after an emergency meeting of the association held yesterday, a day after the law minister and the AG disclosed that chief justice Sinha has sought one month leave to the president on health grounds from Oct 3. The law minister and the AG also termed the SCBA claim a plot to tarnish the reputation of the judiciary. “It (the allegation) is totally baseless and those who want…

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Foreign envoys in Myanmar say villages burned to ground

Ambassadors of 20 mostly western countries based in Myanmar in a joint statement has said they saw Rohingya…

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News

Talks with Myanmar on PM’s five point proposals: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said talks with Myanmar are underway on the basis of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s five point proposals placed in the UN general assembly recently, reports BSS. “In the face of the intense global pressure, Myanmar has become bound…

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Metro

Expats first in availing of NID services

Bangladeshi expatriates will get priority in availing of National Identity (NID)-related services seeking corrections in wrong information, changing voting addresses and recollecting the NID card if the first one is lost or damaged, reports UNB. The Election Commission (EC) has recently issued a directive…

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Editorial

Protecting hilsa

At least 15 fishermen were fined and sentenced on Sunday by mobile courts of Ramgati upazila of Lakshmipur and Patharghata upazila of Barguna for catching hilsa defying a government ban. According to a report of this newspaper yesterday, in Lakshmipur, a mobile court awarded nine fishermen one month…

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Op-ed

Why great leaders fail?

FIFA president Sepp Blatter and heir apparent Michel Platini were both banned from the sport for eight years by FIFA’s ethics committee in a belated display of zeal that has convinced no one of its ability to clean house and reform. The two presided over the sport at a time of scandal on an epic…

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Miscellaneous

Dhaka, Ankara agree to enhance bilateral cooperation

Bangladesh and Turkey have agreed to enhance cooperation in the fields of trade, investment, disaster management, education, counterterrorism and air connectivity, reports UNB. The consensus came at the 2nd Bangladesh-Turkey Foreign Office Consultation held on Monday at state guesthouse Meghna when…

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Business

Mobile number portability within 4 months: Tarana

The much-talked about mobile number portability (MNP) service is likely to be launched within next four months. “We are expecting that MNP service will be launched within three to four month,” State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Division Tarana Halim told The Independent yesterday.…

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Worldwide

4 killed, 4 injured in Indian Kashmir

SRINAGAR: Three suspected militants were killed yesterday after they stormed a paramilitary base near the main airport of Indian-administered Kashmir, police said, ending an hours-long gun battle that also left a soldier dead, reports AFP. Three paramilitary troopers and a police officer were…

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Dhakalive

Akhtarun Nahar Ivy’s ceramic art exhibition underway at Nat’l Museum

A nine-day solo ceramic art exhibition of artist Akhtarun Nahar Ivy, jointly arranged by Gallery Cosmos and Bangladesh National Museum, is underway at the Nalinikanta Bhattasali Gallery of Bangladesh National Museum, Shahbag in the capital, report UNB. Former Executive Chairman of the Board of…

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Sports

Bashar thinks Tigers progress in Test

The performance of the Bangladesh cricket team against the South Africa in the first Test at Potchefstroom especially in the second innings after the toss blunder has been criticized from all the fronts. Even though the defeat was inevitable for the visitors, the critics coupled with the fans of the…

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Nationwide

Govt to provide free farm inputs of Tk 137cr to 7.76 lakh farmers

DHAKA: The government will provide free seeds and fertilizers to some 7.76 lakh flood affected small and marginal farmers of six haor and 18 mid-northern districts of the country by spending an outlay of Taka 137 crore under agriculture rehabilitation programme in the upcoming boro season, reports BSS.…

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Labour agencies fail to keep pace with demand from Malaysia

Bangladesh has sent around 35,000 workers to Malaysia so far under the government-to-government (G2G) plus scheme as against 108,000 demand letters, revealing a slow pace in sending manpower to that country, sources said. Ten Bangladeshi recruiting agencies that have got approval to send manpower to…

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Panorama

The deadly germ warfare island abandoned by the Soviets

On the Kazakh-Uzbek border, surrounded by miles of toxic desert, lies an island. Or at least, something that used to be an island. Vozrozhdeniya was once home to a vibrant fishing village fringed by turquoise lagoons, back when the Aral Sea was the fourth-largest in the world and abundant with fish.…

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